Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in...
by jrandm on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:14AM
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I didn't say anything about capabilities.
If a base requirement is the thing is implemented with X, like wanting a table made of teak wood, and you give me a table that doesn't have any teak in it you've ignored half of my requirements. I don't care if you assessed my needs as being better met by oak and you made a fine table, I need to put a teak table somewhere and you completely failed at that task.
The point of a take home test that says build foo in Python so we can see it in Python is not "to see if a person can get things done," it's to see how a person gets things done in Python.
If a base requirement is the thing is implemented with X, like wanting a table made of teak wood, and you give me a table that doesn't have any teak in it you've ignored half of my requirements. I don't care if you assessed my needs as being better met by oak and you made a fine table, I need to put a teak table somewhere and you completely failed at that task.
The point of a take home test that says build foo in Python so we can see it in Python is not "to see if a person can get things done," it's to see how a person gets things done in Python.